Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Sandman threat actor, the attack took place on March 21, 2020. After reviewing the attack logs of the Denial of Service, Qurium could quickly determine that the attacker was using Fineproxy VPN service to build a botnet to flood the website.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can cripple an organization, a network, or even an entire country, and they show no sign of slowing down. DDoS attacks may only make up a small percentage of security threats, but their consequences can be devastating. According to Imperva Research Labs, DDoS attacks tend to come in waves.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 16, 2020

Atlas VPN found the United States was targeted more than any other country partially because of its size and the openness of the internet.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2021

RDP as a DDoS attack vector. million results in a search for “remote desktop” and NetScout identified 33,000 Windows RDP servers that could potentially be abused in this type of DDoS attack. The owner of the destination IP address(es) will experience a DDoS attack. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2023

Researchers warn of several DDoS botnets exploiting a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-28771 in Zyxel devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers warned of multiple DDoS botnets exploiting a vulnerability impacting multiple Zyxel firewalls. through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.35.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2022

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” Liberator is advertised as a DDoS tool to launch attacks against “Russian propaganda websites.” ” continues the report.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Plus: A TrickBot hacker arrest, a Fortinet VPN password leak, and more of the week's top security news.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Shortly after that, those same servers came under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Chaput said whoever was behind the DDoS was definitely not using point-and-click DDoS tools, like a booter or stresser service.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It seems as if each day brings more harrowing stories about DDoS attacks that have been waged against enterprises, with each attack seemingly lasting longer and costing more than the ones before. This makes them susceptible to DDoS attacks. Such devices contain state information used to route and manage traffic.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s not yet known whether Ukrtelecom—a telephone, internet and mobile provider—was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack or a deeper, more sophisticated intrusion. A tried and tested method to disrupt communications is to overload the network(s) with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Communications.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

.” Lumen’s research team said the purpose of AVrecon appears to be stealing bandwidth – without impacting end-users – in order to create a residential proxy service to help launder malicious activity and avoid attracting the same level of attention from Tor-hidden services or commercially available VPN services. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks Nation-state actors (..)

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

.” Microsoft said LAPSUS$ has been known to target the personal email accounts of employees at organizations they wish to hack, knowing that most employees these days use some sort of VPN to remotely access their employer’s network. However, Telegram lumps all aliases for an account into the same Telegram ID number.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 8, 2020

DDoS attacks on VPN servers can not only bring remote work to a standstill but also cut off admins from accessing their systems. Here are three ways to stay safer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). A virtual private network (VPN) takes a public internet connection (i.e. Less-promoted uses for VPNs include accessing restricted sites in authoritarian countries and masking illegal activities. Key Features of a VPN. Also Read: NordVPN vs ExpressVPN: Which VPN Should You Choose?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dark web services: DDoS attacks, botnets, and zero-day IoT vulnerabilities Of all IoT-related services offered on the dark web, DDoS attacks are worth examining first. See translation I’m the world’s best-known DDoS attacker for hire (getting ahead of myself here). Our advantages: 1. Tested, tried.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Now Cybersecurity expert says the next generation of identity theft is here: ‘Identity hijacking’ Were 3 Million Toothbrushes Really Used for a DDoS Attack? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2021

Who is behind the massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that hit the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan? The traces lead us to an Israeli firm offering access to millions of proxies in mobile operators, data centers and residential buildings – a perfect infrastructure to hide the source of DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

The group was also carrying out DDoS attacks to paralyze the networks of the victims and force them to pay the ransom. The gang was also providing VPN-like services used by other cybercriminal organizations to carry out malicious activities used to deliver malware to the target organization. Source SSU.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Maze ransomware gang hacked M&A firm Threadstone Advisors LLP Ransomware attack disrupts operations at Australian beverage company Lion Tech firms suspend use of ‘biased facial recognition technology Accessories giant Claires is the victim of a Magecart attack, credit card data exposed Black Kingdom ransomware operators exploit Pulse VPN flaws (..)

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Malwarebytes

MAY 11, 2021

According to the FBI, Avaddon ransomware actors have compromised victims through remote access login credentials—such as Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP ) and Virtual Private Networks ( VPN ). After Avaddon actors gain access to a victim’s network, they map the network and identify backups for deletion and/or encryption. Additional threats.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

from the Lympo NTF platform.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2021

Source: The Daily Swig) tsuNAME, a vulnerability that can be used to DDoS DNS. Other cybersecurity news: Cisco HyperFlex web interface has a critical flaw. Source: PenTestPartners) Apple fixes 2 iOS zero-day vulnerabilities actively used in the wild. Source: BleepingComputer) Google and Mozilla will bake HTML sanitization into their browsers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Implement rate limiting to harden against DDoS and DNS tunneling attacks. Anti-DDoS configurations can enhance server architecture DDoS to protect DNS. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

“The vulnerability can be potentially exploited by sending a malicious request to either the Web Admin or SSL VPN consoles, which would enable an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands.” Cyberoam Firewall protects organizations from DoS , DDoS and IP Spoofing attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Hackers abuse Plex Media servers for DDoS amplification attacks TeamTNT group uses Hildegard Malware to target Kubernetes Systems Experts found critical flaws in Realtek Wi-Fi Module Packaging giant WestRock is still working to resume after recent Ransomware Attack Watch out!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2020

A massive fraud operation used mobile device emulators to steal millions from online bank accounts SolarWinds hackers also breached the US NNSA nuclear agency Clop ransomware gang paralyzed flavor and fragrance producer Symrise Dell Wyse ThinOS flaws allow hacking think clients SUPERNOVA, a backdoor found while investigating SolarWinds hack Zero-day (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

com) with links to the bot was among the 48 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services seized by the FBI in December. The most recent variant spotted by Microsoft spreads by exploiting vulnerabilities in Apache and Apache Spark ( CVE-2021-42013 and CVE-2022-33891 respectively) and also supports new DDoS attack capabilities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company has identified an active a zero-day vulnerability in the TP-Link device with model number TL-XVR1800L (Enterprise AX1800 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 Wireless VPN Router), which is primarily suited to enterprises.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

through 4.73, VPN series firmware versions 4.60 VPN ZLD V4.60 “Since the vulnerability is in the VPN service, which is enabled by default on the WAN, we expect the actual number of exposed and vulnerable devices to be much higher.” Mirai botnets are frequently used to conduct DDoS attacks.”

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The latter confirmed that a threat actor got in through a remote-management network exploiting a poorly configured VPN, and ultimately delivered destructive payloads, affecting tens of thousands of KA-SAT modems. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Crooks were preserving their anonymity using VPN and TOR services. To anonymize the bot farm traffic, the operators ran connections through VPN services and the Tor network. The servers were hosted at an unnamed data center in Amsterdam, it was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks worldwide. .

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

However, these advancements open the door to new potential threats and vulnerabilities such as kernel bypass, DDOS attacks on 5G service interfaces, cyberattacks on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem, leading to Zero-day exploits, software tampering and API exploits.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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